Really pleased to hear this. I will be staying on Beehaw for the foreseeable future, I’m on the same page as the admins.
Really pleased to hear this. I will be staying on Beehaw for the foreseeable future, I’m on the same page as the admins.
Amen to that!
It’s a status symbol. I used to live next to tradies who would laugh about a guy turning up on the worksite with a cheap Ute or an automatic transmission. Having a big, powerful muscle car is - as Nick Offerman describes it - like having a carapace for these men to hide in and feel protected.
I have owned a SUV in the past - Toyota Rav. I really liked that car. It was a pain to park and I scraped it a few times, but it felt nice to be higher up and comfortable, especially when I was a new driver.
I know in hindsight now I don’t need any of those things. I’m a lot more confident as a driver and am perfectly happy with smaller cars.
You should watch Not Just Bikes’ video on Light Trucks, it’s pretty eye opening.
That’s sad. But do you think it’s less to do with wanting to own a bigger car, and more that regular people can’t really afford to buy new cars anyway? So the sample size is skewed in favour of rich people (or moderately well off) who can actually afford a new car in the first place?
Maybe that’s why we are seeing a surge in e bikes.
We need to start having waste be part of the consideration when producing a product. If your product is meant to last a long time, there should be a strategy for bringing it back and recycling it fully. This goes for computers, phones, cars, whatever!
Regulate SUVs / Pickup Trucks properly for safety and tax the shit out of them. Nobody needs these cars, they’re status symbols first and foremost. Make it preferable to own a small car.
So - the announcements are in Greek, they’ve just modernised the buses. Cool. Seems like it should be something used more often by the locals.
There has got to be more to this story. Do the buses get stuck in the same traffic jams as other cars? Are they infrequent? Do they only service certain areas?
Thank you, this is great advice
Yeah if I had full warranty I would be happy taking a punt but not sure I should take the risk… probably better to wait for a sale
I work in the media industry. Yes, sometimes there are times when you have to work like hell. But it shouldn’t be this way by default and expecting people to work insane hours to compensate for a lack of planning is stupid, unnecessary and burns out your team. If you really think like this, you’re the kind of person I would never want to work with.
By the sounds of the article the director didn’t understand how to plan for 3D animation - which just makes them a bad director who made others spend time fixing their mistakes.
I feel that this problem has only got worse with the popularity of SUVs. I live in a small town in the UK with a large number or wealthy residents who love their posh Land Rovers. They make driving around the streets a mess - lots of waiting for people to pass due to an effective one way street or because their car is way too big and I can’t safely squeeze past them. If they all had regular cars like me traffic would be able to move a lot easier.
Thanks for responding, appreciate it. I don’t really need a “NAS” so to speak because of my mini pc which stays on 24/7 - I just need a place to store stuff. I was thinking a RAID or similar hard drive enclosure might be best because I can find some cheap drives and shove them in. I never considered a single drive with a massive capacity.
Do you think something like this 18TB drive is a good shout? I’m not sure if it’s shuck-able…
WD 18TB Elements Desktop External Hard Drive - USB 3.0, Black https://amzn.eu/d/i7Xi05A
It’s a joke that this kind of expense is expected as normal for road infrastructure but when you propose spending the same on rail or public transit it’s always “but so expensive!” “What a waste of money!” “Who’s paying for it?”
So what if a transit project is over budget? People will use it, and it’s possible for these projects to have more ways of measuring value than fare takings - nobody questions the fact that driving your private car on the motorway is free!
It’s mad. We got drunk on cheap petrol and look where it got us!
I’d probably bet that the people that have filtered through to Lemmy probably already have their own data storage already sorted - you’ve got less “casuals” as it were. I use Google Drive myself, trying to figure out an alternative.
Great article. It’s so sad that the homelessness problem is outweighing the desire for shade and public space. I feel that it’s definitely the bigger problem of the two, but also more complicated to solve.
Fortnite. It’s free!
Fantastic article. I didn’t realise libraries were doing so much - but it’s clear that they are struggling. We should be funding institutions like this absolutely - but also funding housing and health more. If people had a place to live and a place to be healed the library wouldn’t have to pick up the slack.
Just wanted to jump in here - I ended up doing as the commenter below me has said and bought a 20TB external hard drive. Well worth doing imo. I’m going to keep all of my important media that I want to save on the 5TB as a backup.